Skepticism and American faith from the Revolution to the Civil War Grasso, Christopher creator author. ProQuest (Firm) text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2018 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution -- Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits -- Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism -- Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility -- Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania -- Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West -- Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri -- Revelation and Reason: New Englanders in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and Soul -- Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston -- Converting Sceptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies -- Political Hermeneutics: Nullifying the Bible and Consolidating Proslavery Christianity -- Lived Experience and the Sacred Cause: Faith, Skepticism, and Civil War. Cover; Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Sources; Skepticism and American Faith; Introduction; The Personal and the Political; Hiding Doubt and Silencing Skepticism; Framing the Discussion; Debate, Dialogue, and American History; PART ONE: REVOLUTIONS, 1775-1815; 1. Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution; Damnnation Murray and the Religious History of the American Revolution; Deist Hero: Ethan Allen; Deist Monster: William Beadle. American Religious Common Sense in the New Republic2. Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits; Soul Exercises and Religious Community; Religious Imposture and Skeptical Infidelity; 3. Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism; Deism as Skepticism and Faith; Emergence: Deism and Universalism; 4. Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility; Contention: Deism and the Freemasons; Endurance: Deism and the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church; On the Invisibility of Black Skepticism; PART TWO: ENLIGHTENMENTS, 1790-1840. 5. Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian PennsylvaniaFree Discussion and the Public Arena; Diffusing Enlightenment; Soul, Self, and Citizen; The Night of Superstition; 6. Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West; Skeptical Maniacs, Moral Agents, Evangelical Print, and the Christian Party in Politics; The Cause and Cure of Infidelity; 7. Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri; The Marion Dream; Moral Economies; 8. Revelation and Reason; Doubting Scripture; Transcending Scripture; PART THREE: REFORMS, 1820-1850. 9. Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and SoulFrances Wright, Infidel Politics, and the Working Class; Health Reform and the Three Confessions of William Alcott; Ernestine Rose and the Religious Roots of Patriarchy; 10. Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston; Doubt and Calvinist Orthodoxy; Universalism and Free Inquiry; Protestant Liberalism, Catholicism, and Spiritualism; 11. Converting Skeptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies; Infidel and Protestant Economies; The Prosperous Professional; The Urban Artisan; On Factory Workers and Plantation Slaves. Christopher Grasso. Electronic resource. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- United States Church history 19th century United States Church history 18th century Skepticism United States 19th century Skepticism United States 18th century United States Religion 19th century United States Religion 18th century 1700-1899 fast BR525 .G665 2018 277.3/081 Skepticism and American faith Grasso, Christopher. New York City : Oxford University Press, 2018 (DLC) 2017038186 9780190494384 0190494387 9780190494391 0190494395 0190494379 9780190494377 9780190494377 2017058966 5400965 Proquest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action?docID=5400965 NhCcYBP 180616 20221130134017.1 in00004049482